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I went to university in Landfall, he said. Desterbi, you and I saw it happen. The sky was innocent of city glow, stars myriad against and around theMilky Way's white swath. Andthe information that fueled those conversations came from more than themercenaries involved.

But youdeclined the general's request to advise him, Ibang observed. If she'd trieddrinking any large percentage of it, she told herself wryly, she'd have comethrough it bloated and waterlogged. It just sits here; it doesn't go to the intervening mass oranywhere else. A rush pebbled the young colonel's skin.